Another trainwreck: Olbermann interviews “America’s candidate”

posted at 9:50 pm on June 10, 2010 by Allahpundit

Via the Right Scoop, this isn’t news so much as it is performance art. Everyone will have a different favorite moment but mine comes at around 3:55 when Olby asks if he thinks he’ll have to address the obscenity charge against him at some point during the campaign and Greene hits him with the mother of awkward one-word answers. Plain-spoken, unassuming — why, he reminds me of Jefferson Smith. Or rather, he would, if not for that whole “forcing pornography on a stranger” business.

To answer Olby’s question about whether Greene’s a GOP plant, the more I think about it, the more implausible it seems. If you were a Republican strategist desperate to clear a path to victory for your party’s nominee, why would you bother with shenanigans in a state like South Carolina, where DeMint’s a mortal lock to be re-elected? And if you’re going to go to the trouble of choosing a plant and risking all the bad publicity and possible criminal repercussions that come with that, wouldn’t you plant someone who’s a tad more compelling? The goal would be to lose the general election to DeMint but to win the primary, and to do that most strategists would assume they needed a plant with some minimal degree of competence. As it turns out, they would have been dead wrong — but not until the votes were tallied could anyone have known that.

Plus, like DrewM says, this is the South Carolina GOP we’re talking about. At this point, does anyone think that crew could pull this off? Exit quotation from WaPo’s new profile of the candidate: “I mean, I mean, the people have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina.”

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“I mean, I mean, the people have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina.”

So very interesting. I can hear Arianna now “Zee Republicans are absolootley 1000 percent behind dis” and if that doesn’t work, they’re going to bash the entire South – you could get that drift from this patronizing interview of the little stupid puppy by the big Manhattan anchor. He seems as qualified for office as Zero to me.

Not too surprising except for that it’s a Senate nomination.
Here in the Monterey Bay, my GOP has run everything from low level functionaries to outright nutjobs against Rep.Sam Farr.
The only question was if the GOP whackjob was gonna lose by 40 or 60 points.

Okay…if this guy is for real, actually drummed up the cash on his own to do this somehow, and if this obscenity charge is in fact overblown(could potentially be a pissed off ex girlfriend or something)…then I like this guy. He’s got real balls.

However…if not…then I think South Carolina is getting punked. Notice the only question he jumped up and answered quickly was whether the ten grand came from his own funds. Every other question, he seemed like he was going to pass out. He comes off as an unprepared stooge shoved in the spotlight.

Exit quotation from WaPo’s new profile of the candidate: “I mean, I mean, the people have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina.”

Ok, the only logical explanation at this point is that he’s a Democrat plant in order to frame the Tea Party or GOP for planting this guy. There’s no other way.
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Oooooooor maybe this guy knows that Obama pays out big to get people to drop out of races…maybe this guy is angling for an ambassadorship and knows it’s just a matter of time before Rahm gives him a ringy-dingy! Think about it.

Let’s say he’s elected. Functionally, what’s the difference between him and say, Al Franken or even John Kerry? They’ll vote the same way 98%+ of the time. So, really, democrats -should- support this guy. He’s a guaranteed robot vote for anything he’s told to vote for. It’s their ideal candidate, if you think about it.

a strawman perhaps? manchurian candidate? it’s extremely bizarre that he comes out of nowhere, no campaigning, no money to speak of and gets 59% of the vote. WTF is really going on here? Someone is pulling the wool over the voters eyes.

hell, in 2008, there wasn’t nuffin driving anybody to vote for BHO other than name recognition. You couldn’t go anywhere without seeing their signs/stickers etc. It was obvious that a candidate didn’t have to know a damn thing, and we are living that nightmare every damn day. Obama is just Alvin Greene with name recognition and a JD, right? oh yeah, and that gift he told harry about….

I mean, I mean, the people have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina.

He personally believes that U.S. Americans are unable to locate America on the map because, um, so many people in this country don’t have maps, unlike in places like South Africa and in the Iraq, like such as….

I don’t see what all the hub bub is, this guy is every bit as competent as Nancy P. Babs “bat shit” Boxer, Cynthia Mc Kenny, Cold cash Jefferson, Waxman, Sheila J. Lee, John Edwards, Algore, Bawney Fwank, I could keep going but I am typing on a blackberry.

I mean hell, the only prerequisite to run as a Dem is to be crazy as a shithouse rat.

The more interesting story here, which the MSM and even the bloggers seemed to have overlooked, is the fact that this guy got 56% (or 59%, which I read on ABC News’s site) of the vote. Fixty-six percent of the Democrats in S. Carolina voted for this guy? Somewhere Acorn must be involved.
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I’ve heard three possible explanations:
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1) His name was higher on the ballot
2) Many people in S. Carolina have Greene as a surname
3) Maybe people thought he represented the Green Party or something green
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I’ll add another possibility: South Carolina Democrats are absolute morons.

It looked like someone was talking into his earpiece. He was naming a bunch of positions the other candidate had held, and his age, and at 2:43 you hear “He’s just a candidate” and then Greene pushes the earpiece back in.

Today on the local Mark Davis show he played clips from a controversy involving Hallmark cards vs. the LA NAACP. Hallmark has a “musical” card that is to be given to a graduate and on the cover states “You are out of this world! You are in space!” and when you open it a little musical voice says some things including “Take that you meteors! Take that you black holes!” . Well – the controversy is that “this is offensive to black women” because they hear “black ho’s”. When pointed out repeatedly what a “black hole” is and that the voice clearly says “black hole”, they are not backing down.

this is beyond my comprehension. . . first that I watched an Olby interview, but that aside, I feel kind of sorry for the guy, but admire his plugging along, even though it is painful for everyone, but then there is that felony charge. . . .
how the hell did he get 60%?
what are they saying in SC, apart from the “plant” crap, who would plant this guy?

Keith Olberman being ~ever so polite~ to honestly one of the most ill-spoken, unqualified persons for high office ever. Just imagine had he interviewed Sarah Palin after her selection as the Republican VP in 2008 to this dreck. Imagine it, friends! Twist in the wind, libs, at undue challenges, unfortunate circumstances, and how poor Greene’s being unduly attacked as a “regular ol’ Joe.”